Bo Jackson Quotes

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

It's all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.

Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.

Don't put off until tomorrow the loving words you can say today.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.

I'll never worry about not being successful. I'll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.

It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.

I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

It is better to give a lick than receive one.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

I love going out and doing new things.

By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.